1. Family: Nilo-Saharan
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Sudanic
  3. Genus: Nara

Nara (in Ethiopia)

WALS coordinates: 15° 5′ N, 37° 35′ E

spoken in Eritrea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nera
Routledge:
  • Nara
Other:
  • Barya,
  • Barea, Barya, Nera,
  • Barea
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Missing /p/
Uvular Consonants None
Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels None
Syllable Structure Moderately complex
Tone Simple tone system
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
Morphology
Locus of Marking in the Clause Dependent marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases No marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article
Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
Numeral Classifiers Absent
Nominal Syntax
Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
Possessive Classification No possessive classification
Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' different from 'with'
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Question particle
Predicative Adjectives Mixed
Nominal and Locational Predication Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
Lexicon
M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns